vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jun 4 09:45:28 2004

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any viruses written specifically for
> them, IIRC.

I don't know about the VAX, but there certainly were "viruses" written for
the C64, and the Apple ][, and I'm sure many other 8-bits (and also the
VAX for that matter).

> > But look what we have: Winblows XP & MacOS. Computers on training wheels,
> > and how many people actually know how to fix the damn things? 2% of the
> > population? Tops?
> 0.9% in my experience. The real problem is people who know enough to be
> dangerous, but don't know enough to fix the machine properly.

Yeah, progress sucks.

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